Fire in the Heavens

The day Jeff Benson went to the auction of the Hotchkiss Scientific Laboratories, all he wanted was permission from the winning bidder to use some of its equipment. For the young scientist believed that he was on the trail of a discover which—if he could prove it—would be literally earth-shaking in its implications: an error in the Universal Law of the Conservation of Energy. But to continue his investigations, he needed better equipment than he could afford.